Sunday Sermonette: Holy crap

Judges 18 essentially presents a wholesale repudiation of the law given in the Torah. It also presents moral depravity, of which God approves, but that ' s nothing new. Israelites are fully entitled to commit genocide and steal the land of anyone they encounter. A technical point: the " household Gods " (Hebrew Teraphim) were encountered previously in Genesis 31, when Rachel stole her father ' s household Gods. Micah has also made a molten image and a graven idol, both of which are apparently just fine with Yahweh. 18 In those days Israel had no king.And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.2 So the Danites sent five of their leading men from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and explore it. These men represented all the Danites. They told them, “Go, explore the land.”So they entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.3 When they were near Micah ’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they turned in there and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”4 He told them what Micah had done for him, and said, “He has hired me and I am his priest.”5 Then they said to him, “Please inquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful.”6 The priest answered them, “...
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